a turnabout in power:1689,the Glorious Revolution (William and Mary)--benign,less intense than reb- reb-: a resistance to lawful authority:the mid-17th C,the Great Rebellion --politically more potent,more intense than rev-,still a name for the losers in the war 18th C: American Independence War,French Revolution rev-:a turning around the subversion of tyrants based on belief in a new principle:Am Rev--King of England driven out of America;Fr Rev --1793,the beheading of Louis XVI,Reign of Terror (Jacobins),1796,the beginning of Napoleonic Wars modern meaning being shaped towards the end of the 18th C:political action political idea,a very potent political word personal?class struggle? reb-:the subversion of the laws --not personal? 19th C:American Civil War reb-:a resistance to lawful authority;the Confederates: rebels --still a name for the losers in the war 20th C: Chinese Revolution,revolutions everywhere rev-:subversion of tyrants,belief in a new political principle (modern meaning). 1960s -1970s:period of unrest (young people in the U.S.,also in France and elsewhere) --indiscriminate use 1980s:to sell running shoes --corrupted use reb-: still a name for the losers in wars 4.16thC: religious issues:Protestantism (Henry VIII, divorce)vs the Catholic Church;court conspiracies;the execution of Thomas More,of Mary Stuart;war with Spain on the seai an increasingly rich middle class;Humanist criticism of traditional doctrines and ideas;mobility between social classes,etc. an age full of changes,often sudden changes/twists and turns of life;changeability also denoted by the three adjectives "vibrant,cruel,progressive"[cf.pendulum] Brown does not say that revolution acquired its political meaning through tarot cards.The wheel of fortune,though a very popular image in the 1500s,may be unfamiliar to us today but we can still find it in a set of.tarot cards. The extension of "circular movement"from astronomy to human life,to power struggle:a creative application,a fit adaptation (wheel:also circular movement,a figure of changing scenes of social and political life).Thus:dominant idea of the age --(absorbed in/captured by)wheel of fortune